Sauce and antlers.
What more could you want?
Showstudio and Nick Knight are opening the doors for political commentary through fashion and allowing the use of a platform for voices that may not be otherwise heard.
On the other hand, Knight brings up the obvious point that if these multi-gazillion dollar companies are doing global campaigns why on earth aren’t they involving some level of political or social commentary, especially in the current climate?
Has the industry of fashion stomped on the possibility of real rebellion [in a sense of refusing to accept banality and the need to express opinions, aesthetics and beliefs in opposition to the those in control]?
The overwhelming amount of money swirling around the heads of CEO’S seems to have created a noose around the neck of creatives both young and old.
Front pleated khakis stifling every last gasping breath.
Who will be the next Dior, McQueen, Schiaparelli?
And somebody give them some money.
Via Showstudio:
“Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, Nick Knight is staging a multi-level film project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts. From the beginning of December 2007, the first stage of ‘Political Fashion Films’ invites visitors to the SHOWstudio website to submit a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes that articulates some kind of political point using fashion. Inkeeping with previous film seasons ‘Moving Fashion’ and ‘Editing Fashion’, in February 2008, this invitation will be opened up to a wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures, whose Political Fashion Films created to the same brief will also be broadcast on the SHOWstudio website, one-per-day. The end of the project will be marked by a screening event to be held in London during Spring 2008.”
film brief [video]
